April 20, 2012

Road to Cheaper Gas Runs Through Riyadh

Haykel/Luciani/Woertz, Foreign Policy


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If there's one thing that unites U.S. President Barack Obama, top-ranking Saudi officials, and Americans at the gas pump, it's this: The price of oil is too damn high. What's more, given physical and market realities, this should not be so. . .

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